SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO DO
YOUR OWN PRAYING
“Is anyone among you
afflicted? He should pray.” James 5:13
If you are in trouble, you need to
pray. That’s what the Word of God says. Notice it didn’t say your
pastor needs to pray for you or your friends need to pray for you. It
says, YOU need to pray.
Too often we try to find a quick fix
to our problems by asking everyone else to pray for us. There’s nothing
wrong with having others pray for you, but you will never get your life to a
place of permanent victory until you begin to pray yourself.
The biggest church in the world is
in Seoul, Korea. It has more than 700,000 members and the pastor was
asked how the church got so large. According to Dr. Cho, the key is
prayer. Not just his prayers, but the prayers of his people. Praying is a
way of life in that church. They have a place called Prayer Mountain where
thousands of people come every day to pray. When the church members are
in trouble, before they do anything else, the church members are told to go and
fast and pray for 24 hours.
We need to quit running around
asking others to pray for us and learn to do our own praying. If I
pray for God to solve one problem for you, you may enjoy success for a while,
but then another problem will come along because you’ll still be making the
same old mistakes that got you in trouble in the first place. But if you do
that praying for yourself, if you discipline yourself to start searching out
the things of the Spirit, you’ll get permanent answers and you will learn to
make adjustments in your life that will keep those problems from cropping up
again.
If you have made Jesus your Lord,
you have access to the throne of Almighty God. He has every solution to
every problem you will ever have and He’s just waiting for you to come to Him,
so He can give you the answer. It may take some private time alone with Him
for you to hear, but He will never disappoint you. Don’t depend on others
to do your praying for you. Go personally to the throne of God and obtain
mercy today.
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